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2008-02-13 Home Front: Politix

ON DEADLINE: Chickens come home to roost

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Posted by tu3031 2008-02-13 13:51|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Go easy on the writer, tu, journalizm be hard, doncha know.

Posted by Carl in N.H. 2008-02-13 15:54|| 2008-02-13 15:54|| Front Page Top

#2 My handy dandy mod color chart thingy tells me that those snappy retorts would be Scooter Macgruder's, I believe...

Posted by tu3031 2008-02-13 16:04|| 2008-02-13 16:04|| Front Page Top

#3 "Hang on here. If a ship is sinking, the rats aboard are in no position to look for clear waters before they abandon it. To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, you abandon a sinking ship with the water you have.

"The headline confuses matters even further: 'ON DEADLINE: Chickens Come Home to Roost.' Fournier's deadline must have been really tight if he didn't have time to figure out if he was writing about rats or chickens.

"Or maybe he got confused because rats taste like chicken."

--James Taranto, "Best of the Web"

I don't think I can out-snark those comments.

Posted by Mike 2008-02-13 16:38|| 2008-02-13 16:38|| Front Page Top

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